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36,048 recorded answers
How to approach it
The trick is to treat the prompt as a wide funnel rather than a popularity contest. Begin with the people you know best, then deliberately travel to countries whose politics rarely make headlines and reconstruct a name from a roster you remember. National legislatures publish member lists, so recall a chamber you have read about — a small assembly, a federal upper house, a coalition partner's bench — and pick a single sitting member. Verify mentally that the person holds office now, not a decade ago. Then consider the scoring logic: the puzzle rewards answers that many people can confirm but few will think of, so an accurate, verifiable name from an overlooked country beats a famous one almost every time.
Get a hint
Start at the very top of the executive ladder: heads of government, their deputies and the senior ministers who were in office this week.
A little more
Narrow by chamber instead: a single seat in a national legislature is enough, so think of backbenchers, whips and committee chairs as well as speakers.
One step further
Go for depth over fame: a member of a small national assembly or a junior minister in a country that rarely makes the news usually scores higher than a household-name premier.
Reveal answers 36,048
- Rupa HuqDeep Cut85points
- Rupert Freeman-MitfordDeep Cut85points
- Rupert LoweDeep Cut85points
- Rupert PonsonbyDeep Cut85points
- Ruppert StüweDeep Cut85points
- Ruqiya Ali KewoDeep Cut85points
- Ruqiya Argo WariyoDeep Cut85points
- Rushanara AliDeep Cut85points
- Rushdan RusmiDeep Cut85points
- Ruslan EdelgeriyevDeep Cut85points
- Ruslan GadjievDeep Cut85points
- Ruslan HorbenkoDeep Cut85points
- Ruslan JumamuratovDeep Cut85points
- Ruslan KniazevychDeep Cut85points
- Ruslan KravchenkoDeep Cut85points
- Ruslan LechkhadzhievDeep Cut85points
- Ruslan MukambetovDeep Cut85points
- Ruslan RzayevDeep Cut85points
- Ruslan StefanchukDeep Cut85points
- Ruslan SuynalievDeep Cut85points
- Ruslanas BaranovasDeep Cut85points
- Russ FulcherDeep Cut85points
- Russ KunDeep Cut85points
- Russel CebekhuluDeep Cut85points
- Russell DlaminiDeep Cut85points
- Russell FindlayDeep Cut85points
- Russell FryDeep Cut85points
- Russell HobbyDeep Cut85points
- Russell RookDeep Cut85points
- Rustam BakoyanDeep Cut85points
- Rustam EmomaliDeep Cut85points
- Rustem MardanovDeep Cut85points
- Rustem UmerovDeep Cut85points
- Rusudan KokhodzeDeep Cut85points
- Rūta MiliūtėDeep Cut85points
- Ruta Teretia BaboDeep Cut85points
- Ruth Adriano MendesDeep Cut85points
- Ruth BrandDeep Cut85points
- Ruth CadburyDeep Cut85points
- Ruth CharterisDeep Cut85points
- Ruth CoppingerDeep Cut85points
- Ruth Cross KwansingDeep Cut85points
- Ruth DavidsonDeep Cut85points
- Ruth DeechDeep Cut85points
- Ruth González SilvaDeep Cut85points
- Ruth HuntDeep Cut85points
- Ruth JonesDeep Cut85points
- Ruth Lausma LuikDeep Cut85points
- Ruth ListerDeep Cut85points
- Ruth LuqueDeep Cut85points
Why these answers count
Scoring here is driven by rarity rather than prominence. The single hundred-point answer, Michael Dobbs, sits alone at the top precisely because almost nobody else named that individual, while the enormous 85-point band contains tens of thousands of sitting members drawn from national chambers across every continent, from A B M Mosharrof Hossain and A. A. Rahim to Aaron Bean and Abdoulaye Diop. Those answers were correct, current and specific enough to satisfy the checker, yet common enough among players that they landed in the second tier. Below them, the 60-point group of 328 answers was presumably made up of figures who were either extremely well known, slightly stale in office, or generically described in a way that reduced their value. The lesson is blunt: a verifiable backbencher from a legislature nobody discusses is worth more than a prime minister everyone recognises, and a precise full name outperforms a vague one.